Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!   

The session met late this month due to Advent and Christmas. Your dedicated leaders continued their work to the very end of 2010, and look forward with anticipation to 2011.  Just as there is year-end work to be completed in your own home or business, this is also true of our church.

The session voted and approved:

·         A 2011 balanced budget

·         The 2011 Terms of Call for Rev. Dr. Tobin E. Wilson

·         The Nominating Committee - Steve Glass as chair, Peggy Meyer and Kathy Reed as members, and Rev. Dr. Tobin E. Wilson as advisor, to recommend new officers for the new  terms of office

·         Slate of Officers for the Board of Trustees for LBPC.

All of this information will be available for receipt or approval at the Annual Congregational meeting which will be held at the end of January.  Stay tuned for the date and time of this meeting.

The session also approved the resignation of elder, Kent Stock, who resigned due to his extensive travel and adventures that he has planned for a good portion of the year. We wish Kent safe travels and thank him for his leadership and service! We look forward to hearing his travel stories upon his return.

Session also approved hosting the Seattle Presbytery for their May 2011 Presbytery Meeting on May 17. All of the ministers and elder representatives from all of the churches within the Seattle Presbytery will be present at the meeting. This may be over 250 people coming to our church. They meet six times per year to review, present and decide on the business of our presbytery. This event will include a worship service and business meetings, a review of church books, voting on General Assembly business and dinner. We are very excited to have the Presbytery come and see our re-invented campus. 

The session continues to review new mission partnerships that come to LBPC inquiring to be in our building and part of our community. The session recently approved building use for "What's For Dinner Seattle?" a company that provides affordable and creative foods for seniors. The session supports these partnerships as they offer services we are not able to provide at this time. It expands the depth and breadth of the work at LBPC. 

Corporate prayers for our church:

• That the re-organization of our session and the vision and focus for the next year becomes clear and alive in the coming months.
• That people will step up to a new way of creating an innovative church that meets the needs of the folks sitting in our pews and those we haven't met yet. 

We wish you peace and joy during this Christmas season, and that you be filled with the wonder of our new year together.

Respectfully submitted,
Melinda Glass, LBPC clerk

 

In the spirit of Advent, a season of watching and waiting, we at LBPC are excited to enter the New Year with many exciting things on the horizon! From a growing children's ministry, a restored effort to reach high school and junior high students through a new partnership with Young Life, and a growing worship and music program, there is a lot to be excited for in our little neighborhood.

 

Our continued goal as a faith community is to reach out to the families and individuals in Burien and surrounding communities and offer them a safe place to worship and serve, a place where all people feel loved. We want to continue to offer an environment where all people can enter in and be a part of something bigger than themselves. How exciting that we can all serve and learn together new ways to reach out to all of God's beloved children!

 

If you are interested in helping with our growing youth or children's ministries, or if you are ready to join the choir or worship team, please email me today so we can get connected!

 

Email: markwesleywagner@gmail.com

 

Mark Wesley Wagner

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Per Capita: The per capita apportionment dollars, $40.79, are assessed for each active member on LBPC rolls. The funds are used for administrative support of ministry and mission for each of the governing bodies of the Presbytery Church (USA)

A breakdown of the distribution of the $40.79 that is due for each member is as follows:

General Assembly   $6.50

Synod                          5.46

Presbytery                 28.83

                                 $40.79

As of Dec. 31, 2009, we reported 246 active members; thus we have an outstanding bill to Presbytery in the amount of $10,034.34. Please help us offset this cost by contributing $40.79 for each active member. If you have any questions, please call Anne Tiernan at 206.241.2426.

Thank you for your continued support!

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Save March 6 for the annual Alice Winters' silent auction and "celebrate the gifts of women" Sunday.

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Baskets were delivered to several grateful families just before Thanksgiving in November. Thanks to everyone who donated either food items or money to help make the Deacon's Thanksgiving Food Drive a success.

Cindy Waddington

Your prayers, cards, visits and phone calls were much appreciated, as I had major heart surgery on Oct. 4. I do thank you sincerely. My heart healed nicely. The rest of me is trying to catch up with it. It is so nice to be a member of such a caring congregation.

Sincerely,

Marian Shoemaker

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This is our heartfelt thank you to all who created in word, music, art and decoration the simple, magical and truly inspirational services of Advent and Christmas. To Tobin Wilson, Penny and John Hickman, Dan Albrecht, Jan Klerekoper, Mark Wagner, Jeanie Burns, our choir and the guest musicians and vocalists, Glorify team and the volunteers who helped decorate the sanctuary.

Melinda Mackey-O'Brien and Tim O'Brien

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